People

We are a community of students, scholars, and staff who share a dedication to understanding the region more deeply.

 

The views expressed by people affiliated with the Davis Center are as different as the people themselves and do not necessarily reflect institutional positions held by the center.

People

Staff
Paul Vădan coordinates the Imperiia Project.
Center Associate
Janet Vaillant is Independent Scholar.
Center Associate
Nikolay Valkov is Member, Macedonian Scientific Institute.
Center Associate
Currently the Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing Specialist at Tufts University, Jake is a scholar of Central Asian and Tatar intellectual history.
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Ilya Vidrin is an assistant professor at Northeastern University and a research-practitioner at the nexus of performing arts, ethics, and interactive media.
Center Associate
Born in Prague, I lived in several countries, and was educated in four languages: Czech, Russian, French and English.
Staff
Genevieve is the Communication and Design Coordinator at the Davis Center.
Graduate Student Associate
Harvard MDes (Ecologies) 2025, OCAD BDes 2020, Chinese-Canadian service designer and researcher interested in speculative and critical design and design research.
Graduate Student Associate
S.M. Candidate in Computational Science and Engineering wrangling data for Imperiia